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It is a criminal offence to sell fruit & veg by the pound in the UK under the Weights & Measures (Units of Measurement) Regulations 1994.

Here's the first prosecution who became a cause célbre, known as The Metric Martyr

Ironically, he's even dead now !

There is much debate over the actual legality of the act.

Sure. You can speak the straight OSCAR protocol if you want. It's a lot harder than using the SDK - especially if you want to get p2p stuff like file transfer and voice working - but we understand that one size does not fit all.

So any client that properly identifies itself (i.e. does not claim to be an official AIM client and uses an Open AIM key), and conforms to the AIM Developer EULA, will be allowed to use the AIM network, regardless of whether or not they use our SDK.

Of course, I recommend using our SDK. It's robust and fast, and is way ahead of libgaim and other libs in terms of functionality.

More info: http://journals.aol.com/juberti/runningman

We're not joking. The rules have changed. We want people to build on top of the AIM platform. That is why this is a big deal.

Any client that properly identifies itself (i.e. does not claim to be an official AIM client and uses an Open AIM key), and conforms to the AIM Developer EULA, will be allowed to use the AIM network, regardless of whether or not they use our SDK.

More info: http://journals.aol.com/juberti/runningman

Yes. The rules have changed. That is why this is a big deal.

Any client that properly identifies itself (i.e. does not claim to be an official AIM client and uses an Open AIM key), and conforms to the AIM Developer EULA, will be allowed to use the AIM network, regardless of whether or not they use our SDK.

Now, the SDK provides A LOT of functionality, including full support for file transfer, image sharing, voice, video, security - things that would take a long time to get working right if you are starting from the base protocol - so I recommend that you use the SDK.

More info: http://journals.aol.com/juberti/runningman

Justin

Oh, wait. You meant the character Lara Croft.

Never mind.

Yes, but you have an AOL address, I mean with NihirNighthawk@aol.com what do you expect? I wouldn't be surprised if Slashdotters unscrambled it just BECAUSE it's an AOL address...

In that case, I think it will be cool if they can make their system use Chinese characters. For one thing they can use all the .com .edu .org etc.without confusing the systems already online. From one of the articles, While the two could theoretically co-exist by having ISPs simply recognize both roots, the system could "break" if both roots contained identical extensions. The extensions really won't be identical if the characters are different, right? If the Chinese want to access the "outside", they just use the English ones. If they do use english characters on their own root servers, well, all I can say is that it might be very entertaining. But I believe they wish to join the WTO, and they(WTO) could just tell them that they just have to abide by WTO rules, which could concievably state "no conflicts with American root servers" for example, as that could be considered interfering with international trade. The EU is using this kind of pressure on Turkey(over journalistic freedoms) and Serbia(war criminals). I don't know. I'm just making this stuff up. FTAA: English domain names should be connected with a dot while the Chinese domain names should be connected using a full stop in Chinese language character sets. So far, I don't see the problem.
Time for me to learn some Chinese, I suppose.

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Thus the great cities that existed in the time of the Conquistadors had completely disappeared by the time the Mayflower settlers landed.

As it happens, I was brought up in the town (Harwich) where Christopher Jones, captian of the Mayflower lived, and from where, in 1620, the Mayflower set-sail before sailing to America (making a stop at Plymouth along the way).

Back to Unix...

The problem with Unix servers is that the big Unix vendors have spent so much time hyping Linux that they've forgotten their own Unix. AIX, HP/UX, Irix, they've died a death. It's almost got to the point where there's ol' Slowaris left.... Oh, and UnixWare of course :-)

From what I've heard, incidents of stalkings and attacks are increasing in the USA. The 'tastes bad' seems to be a myth.

Bears seem to like us just fine. Treadwell hung out with them for a few years, until they ate him.
Lions, Tigers both will attack, kill, and eat humans.

The hunter's theory is that until we discovered 'conservation', we'd gotten so vicious throughout history that we killed any large predators, both because they were competition and a direct threat.

The idea is that by allowing hunting, you both maintain population numbers that can comfortably stay within their ranges(away from humans) and kill the ones least cautious around hunters, thus encouraging them to avoid humans like the plague. Stalking an armed hunter is a far different proposition than an ordinary hiker. There are places in the US that I wouldn't go without being armed or in a large group, and there are a few that I wouldn't go without being part of a large armed group.

Get a real life. Posting stupid stuff on a serious website is a waste of your time and ours. Now either grow up and behave, or run along and go sit at the kiddy table, you stupid twit.

I suggest that you review Economics 101, giving special attention to the reasonings of Malthus, and the reasons why his dismal predictions have not yet come true.

had a whopping 256 bytes of RAM and an 8 character single line display... you can get an emulator here...

Am I the first person in this thread to mention the Science of Cambridge MK14?

8 digits of LED display, hex keyboard, 256 bytes of RAM.

I kind of inherited it from my school (they were replacing two faulty ones, and I managed to cobble together one working one from the two). It was the expanded version, with I/O lines and an extra 128 bytes of RAM.

A working emulator can be found at http://users.aol.com/mk14emu/index.htm.

Then ZX81, Jupiter Ace (another obscure Cambridge-originated computer that used Forth), Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, then a succession of PCs.

AOL already has a method for allowing bulk mailers to get through. It's called the Enhanced Whitelist. See http://postmaster.info.aol.com/tools/whitelist_gui des.html for their ruleset. This is what they use to deliver solicited spam. I call it spam, you call it spam, the AOLer who opted to receive it often calls it spam, but it's still solicited. See anything in those rules you disagree with? Much as I dislike AOL, respect to the rules.

We can argue all day about what spam is or is not, but the world of commerce will still crank out solicited mail until you ask them to stop. It's just too easy to mark it as spam these days, or assume all opt-outs are nefarious gotchas looking for live addresses.

Everyone here complains about spam, but as soon as a couple of companies try to get the ball rolling on any kind of reputation-based sending you all cry foul.

I'm a bulk sender of newsletters for a non-profit, small volume, maybe 500k a year. I'm happy to spend a small amount per E-mail, it's the cost of doing business. Beats wasting one of my staff chewing up several hundred dollars in labour every couple of weeks trying to get E-mail through.

Reputation models and some kind of micropayment is what E-mail needs. Lower all our bandwidth costs and charge us per E-mail sent. E-mail costs money, but most users generally don't see that fact.

Face it, E-mail is broken. Fix it, or watch the leading ISPs do it for you.

and The good news is~

Feminist Pioneer Betty Friedan Dies.... People online

His original point is still valid. I am Google's user. Google is looking out for my interests. I don't care whether BMW gets screwed over in the process, and I'd *enjoy* seeing search engine spammers getting screwed over.

Google is thus continuing to make *my* life good. Which is why they remain the most used search engine.

Despite a long time of watching Google with a wary eye, the only honestly bad thing about Google that I can think of is that they retain personally identifying search profile information beyond 30 days (whereas search.aol.com doesn't, and that only came up very recently).

This problem has been solved already. It's called Ultravox. It's a protocol that is format-agnostic and is used to efficiently multicast a broadcast within the data center up to the point it leaves your network. America Online and Cisco designed and implemented the protocol both in software and in the firmware of specialized Cisco routers and it is used for AOL Radio and for Winamp radio It's very interesting. All your viewers need is Winamp to hear or view your program.

http://ultravox.aol.com/

Anyone have a link to AOL's Goodmail signup page? I can't see find it on their site, even under their email guidelines pages. Anyone?

Damien

550-The IP address you are using to connect to AOL is either open to

550-the free relaying of e-mail, is serving as an open proxy, or is a

550-dynamic (residential) IP address. AOL cannot accept further e-mail

550-transactions from your server until either your server is closed to

550-free relaying/proxy, or your ISP removes your IP address from their

550-list of dynamic IP addresses. For additional information,

550-please visit http://postmaster.info.aol.com./

550 Goodbye

Here is the original story from 2003.

Just to clarify a point that might be missed in this maelstrom: AOL has announced that they are phasing out their *enhanced* whitelist, which grants a subset of their normal whitelist entries additional privileges (e.g., images and links enabled) to particularly well-behaved senders. They have not, at this time, announced any plans to phase out the whitelist. Thus, your local neighbordhood church's mailing list will still be able to benefit from the normal whitelist program -- they simply won't have images or links enabled. This distinction is highly important, since A) for a simple newsletter, images and links are a luxury, not a complete necessity, and B) most phishing schemes rely on images and links that resemble well-known brands to fool people into giving away personal information.

See http://postmaster.info.aol.com/whitelist/index.htm l for a more detailed explanation of the differences between the whitelist and enhanced whitelist programs at AOL.

Actually, this seems to only apply to their "enhanced" whitelist, which allows commercial senders to embed links and images in emails. It doesn't seem to affect the standard whitelist for legitimate non-commercial bulk mailers like mailing lists.

In case you weren't aware, AOL does offer service in other countries.

I never said I'd want to change a gay person. I don't!

You said there was evidence that homosexuality (when defined as one's sexual preference) is caused rather than chosen. I agree. I find the evidence for biological predetermination (such as genetics) a little shaky, but I believe there is ample evidence that psychological and sociological issues can pre-dispose someone to homosexuality.

There was a study done linking brain chemistry to sexual preference, see Homosexuality may be issue of brain chemistry

It seems that sexual abuse (among many other factors), especially by a father at an early age, can pre-dispose someone to homosexuality. See for example Human sexual orientation. Archives of General Psychiatry

There are in fact gay men and women who desire not to be so, see Why Conservatives Should Embrace the Gay Gene Should we reject these people, telling them they were born gay and will always be that way? How insensitive of you!

But the question, which you are so ignorantly missing is, if a homosexual chooses not to sleep with the same sex, is he/she still homosexual?

Hey! I have an idea, why don't you talk to some real psychologists at a real university about what the prevailing scientific findings are about this?

You pal,
Brian

Evolution / natural selection is as simple as this. "What can be, will be." Yes, that's it. This is the principle behind life. Why? If an organism / combination of proteins / grey goo / etc. can multiply, it will. If two different entities need one same resource to multiply, the stronger will get it. Why? If it can get it before the other, it will.

Applying this to the origin of life, a combination of aminoacids which can self-replicate will flourish in comparison of those that don't. In those replications there are flaws, changes or mutations. Those that can multiply, will.

Proteins are nothing but a composition of aminoacids. Aminoacids can be produced "spontaneously" in the right conditions. I'm sure that at some point, enough different aminoacids were present so that a simple chemical reaction
(thunder, UV light) would bond them together.

Why is it difficult to believe in the primordial soup? Let's think about it. According to Ramsey's Theorem in an infinite discrete space, any specific combination of words can be found (this is also known as the infinite monkeys with typewriters writing a work of Shakespeare). So, what happens if we get enough proteins all mixed together, waiting for yet another catalyst?

(I can testify something about the Ramsey's theorem. I know a guy who based a computer research paper on it for pattern recognition. And the thing worked.)

200 million years could be enough time for simple microorganisms to form. The earch is 4.5 billion years old. Think about it.

Have you guys noticed how the book of Genesis starts with... "and the Spirit of God floated above the waters"? I was taught in school that the first lifeforms on earth originated on the surface of the sea.

Maybe the problem with creationists is not that they don't believe in evolution, but that they find it to be physically impossible. Lack of faith perhaps? I wonder, why is it so easy for them to believe that God made Adam and Eve out of a pile of mud, and yet so difficult that God let the aminoacids combine and form simple organisms that would later combine and evolve?

Creationists /ID believers try to use science to disprove evolution, like "aminoacids can be left and right handed, but some of those are poisonous". Well, these areguments can be easily rebated. I googled 5 minutes ago and found David C. Wise's page with a pascal program called "MONKEY", that demonstrates how effective random generation can be.

I haven't personally used F & C, but I have heard the offensive banter of Fritz 7 first-hand. It's really in poor taste. As far as why no-one cares, that's easy. The world of chess is dominated by men, almost to the point of exclusion. Girls are not encouraged to play serious chess. At my local chess club I've seen precisely one female player out of dozens of players I've seen there. The only female player to ever get any traction in the "men's" league is Judit Polgar. All of the rest play in the league that is specifically for women. Hell I've even seen insulting emails posted online by GMs lambasting a strong player for trying to attain a GM title part of which said that the WIM (Women's International Master) title was not even a possibility, let alone a "real" title. Chessbase's "news" articles are especially awful. More often than not, you'll see exactly 0 articles discussing women in chess on the front page. If there are any, it's more likely to be a tounament that includes both men's and women's divisions, or glamour shots of Alexandra Kosteniuk, than a serious piece.

Perhaps I was quick to judge F & C as having sexist content, but given Chessbase's modus operandi, I'm not going to find out by sitting my daughters in front of it.

Find somebod y inthe office with full access that nobody likes and get them drunk and just cut off there finger with a big ass knife...,

Just made sure to cut it at the Proximal Phalanx (see pic) under the nuckle (see pic) for easy drilling of bone to attach onto keyring.....

Or send it to me and I'll make it up for you for a small fee

George Bush Rapes America Porn

You could always try https://my.screenname.aol.com/
AIM Mail's free 2GB IMAP... I signed up for one today, with limited success...

The bad news: No filtering / labeling

The good news: If you can filter enough with Gmail before it hits AIM Mail, it could work for you.

Check out AOL Hi-Q Video http://hiqvideo.aol.com/

Its video delivered by Kontiki's p2p grid technology .

Wonder if Google will end up delivering content in this Manner .

There's also a very good podcast interview Ilfack did with Leo Laporte. If you'd like to check it out, here's the direct link.

The argument is that the current source of embryonic stem cells destroys something that is human life, not something that has the potential to be human life. Now, that obviously raises the question of what counts as human life, but the argument is not over potential.

(It should also be noted that Catholics who are pro-life are often (not always) anti-contraceptive because of their understanding of sexuality. See here for a sample.)

The medical community has never decided that the embyro is not alive. Just because pregnancy is defined to begin with implantation does not mean that the embryo's life is defined to begin with implantation. Obviously, until implantation occurs, the fertilized zygote is functioning as a simple organism, but is not yet attached to the woman. Therefore, she is not pregnant, but the zygote -- well, biologically, it is alive. Tricky? Not really. When the woman gives birth after nine months, she is no longer pregnant, but the baby is nevertheless alive.

The mistake that is commonly made is to think of the zygote's/fetus's/baby's life as somehow being dependent on its connection to the mother. It's an understandable mistake, because up until the last thirty years, the baby could not survive without the mother. But now, live embryos can survive "outside the womb", be frozen and stored, and be implanted into other women and develop into babies. That fact alone shows that the baby and mother are separate organisms that lead interconnected, but distinguishably different, lives.

So: the beginning of pregnancy cannot be used to mark the beginning of life.

In Swedish, the longest word is NORDÖSTERSJÖKUSTARTILLERIFLYGSPANINGSSIMULATORANLÄ GG- NINGSMATERIELUNDERHÅLLSUPPFÖLJNINGSSYSTEMDISKUSSIO NS- INLÄGGSFÖRBEREDELSEARBETEN (130 letters), "preparatory work on the contribution to the discussion on the maintaining system of support of the material of the aviation survey simulator device within the north-east part of the coast artillery of the Baltic," according to 1996 Guinness.

4gb to run web applications is just obscene.

Rotating number plates are standard MI5 issue I expect:

http://members.aol.com/cotsmm/cotspg4.html

As always, the British Intelligence services are one step ahead of the criminals...erm..30 years ahead I suppose.

AOL does use SPF:

$ dig -t txt aol.com

<snip>

aol.com. 300 IN TXT "spf2.0/pra ip4:152.163.225.0/24 ip4:205.188.139.0/24 ip4:205.188.144.0/24 ip4:205.188.156.0/23 ip4:205.188.159.0/24 ip4:64.12.136.0/23 ip4:64.12.138.0/24 ptr:mx.aol.com ?all"

aol.com. 300 IN TXT "v=spf1 ip4:152.163.225.0/24 ip4:205.188.139.0/24 ip4:205.188.144.0/24 ip4:205.188.156.0/23 ip4:205.188.159.0/24 ip4:64.12.136.0/23 ip4:64.12.138.0/24 ptr:mx.aol.com ?all"

But, if you read here (your link,) you'll see this:

AOL will begin using SPF records to maintain our whitelist in the near future.

Slashdot is a public forum where everything is dicussed in far too much depth and 90% of it is pointless

A high altitidue balloon based launch platform .

Imagine a platform at 160,000 feet, that uses a mass driver to toss cargo into low orbit .

High altitude ballons could carry the cargo to the platform 30 miles above the earth .

NASA has already done a small scale version of this :

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/08/02082 7063353.htm

It would be a huge and complex task, but imagine a giant platform with many ballons in case one
fails, and a magnetic mass driver near the center to toss cargo into low orbit .

Power the mass driver would be difficult at that altitude with nearly zero oxygen .

Perhaps fuel cells, solar panels, or other non-combustion method .

I am curious how much a 30 mile headstart plus mag driver boost would help with fuel
cost to achieve Low Earth Orbit .

For the Anti Mass Driver crowd NASA has considered this before .

http://www.freeluna.com/spasnotes.htm

http://www.ssi.org/body_research.html#mass-drivers

http://members.aol.com/oscarcombs/moondust.htm

Thanks !
Ex-MislTech

Are you trying to say that there are stupid people out there that would rather carry an entire corpse to a authentication terminal, rather than delve into the gruesome arts of exacto-knifing those certain finger digits and eyeballs; to assemble a casted mould and a facial mask articulated to correct skin tone with the eyes precisely duplicated in a holographic-depth spectre surface (holographic printer, or inexpensive homemade holography, Holography technique, or even the Amature Holograph Society?) There are even inexpensive technical courses that improves this matter, that can be easily used to purvey an eye-scanner. There is nothing to hide; the technologies thought to provide more security and safety, other than brute-force and immediate consumption, were defeated the moment they were activated. I suppose someone can create every necessary part of a body in three-dimensional clay and it'll pass a scanner test.

I think the counter-actions that inexpensively defeat all the security measures are in good faith, whereas anyone that is coerced to wave standard good-faith handshaking rules and passkeys in their account to a more public and global access have already waived what little security and safety there was meant. I suggest people move their fortunes with them wherever they may need it. This is all the fault of a world-ready currency and central banking, then to let people carry specie in their pockets with a firearm to anyone that wants to take their demurred and stored compensation and barter representations of hard labor.

Moviefone has a pretty robust Narnia section up in their site:

http://movies.aol.com/movie_exclusive_the_chronicl es_of_narnia

They have both video and photo galleries with trailers and behind the scenes segments. Sort of like DVD extras style stuff.

Wikipedia routinely blocks open proxies, and recently they've began blocking anyone using Tor onion routing. Evil doers can, however, edit Wikipedia with impunity from the largest proxy in the world, America Online; Wikipedia admins are not allowed to block an AOL IP address any longer than 15 minutes, to prevent "collateral damage".

Is it just me, or does their case seem a little weak?

For more info on the AOL proxy phenomenon http://webmaster.info.aol.com/proxyinfo.html

G tends to sell well because it's a way to shut up small children.

Doesn't mean that it doesn't make the theater money. And that's all that matters. I was thinking as I hit the submit button, but a limitation of G movies is that they restrict too much. Many storylines just can't be fitted into a G film. This tends to limit the amount of the "adults without children" crowd you're going to get. And they're the richest group.

PG/PG-13 tends to be very dependent on the film. Some parents care intensely if a film is PG-13, others don't care at all. Again it's usually up to the film at this rating where it ends up selling.

Agreed, this is where you can get some real storytelling done.

R rated films tend to make up the vast majority of films showing

Not in my area. PG/PG13 are the majority. A quick rundown of my local theater(8 screens):
1 G
2 PG
4 PG-13
1 R

Normally, we'll have 2 R's, I'll admit. Some time ago they had Jarhead and Doom up at the same time.
You might have more in your area. Past topics are hard to come up, but Moviefone's upcoming release schedule for non-limited release films stacks up as:
1 PG
5 PG-13
2 R(January)
1 NR(Late December release, assumed R)

Perhaps this would show that "comtemporary community standards" aren't exactly what many people want to think they are.

"Contemporary community standards" are different for children and adults. MPAA ratings are obstinately solely for children, it's assumed that adults can determine whether a movie is appropriate for themselves.

Awards tend to go to films with impact, and that's one of the things that you sometimes need to have adult situations in.

AOL, MSN and Yahoo (via relationship with SBC) are all dialup providers. It's not surprising their portals are visited more often by the, erm, underprivileged.

Honestly, I didn't make the connection to Fundamentalist Christian at first. but through the magic of Google, however, I managed to stumble across this hilarious dictionary and thought I would share;
http://members.aol.com/porchnus/dict01.htm

Enjoy!

I've gotten this from several people on my list in the past few days... it basically spams a message, usually the same one, every hour or so, with the same link. It just fakes the address, the real link is to: http://209.235.17.26/My_Christmas_Card.SCR

(06:41:27) xxxx: This AIM user has sent you a Christmas Card! To open it please visit: http://greetings.aol.com/index.pd?source=greetings card?my_christmas_card.scr
This senders personal note: Merry Christmas!
(06:41:27) yyyy : Sorry, I ran out for a bit!
(08:42:59) xxxx: This AIM user has sent you a Christmas Card! To open it please visit: http://greetings.aol.com/index.pd?source=greetings card?my_christmas_card.scr
This senders personal note: Merry Christmas!

I've gotten this from several people on my list in the past few days... it basically spams a message, usually the same one, every hour or so, with the same link. It just fakes the address, the real link is to: http://209.235.17.26/My_Christmas_Card.SCR

(06:41:27) xxxx: This AIM user has sent you a Christmas Card! To open it please visit: http://greetings.aol.com/index.pd?source=greetings card?my_christmas_card.scr
This senders personal note: Merry Christmas!
(06:41:27) yyyy : Sorry, I ran out for a bit!
(08:42:59) xxxx: This AIM user has sent you a Christmas Card! To open it please visit: http://greetings.aol.com/index.pd?source=greetings card?my_christmas_card.scr
This senders personal note: Merry Christmas!

If he had worn body armor, He would have made it a class 3 felony

http://members.aol.com/StatutesP7/18PA907.html

AOL does have some efforts aimed at delivering video content. As broadband grows and the company sees a need to shift to depending more on advertising revenue as well as premium services, it would not be entirely surprising if they did try to leverage the content library.

http://www.aol.com/video/
http://search.singingfish.com/sfw/home.jsp

You'd be right, however, in that the company is organized into separate business units -- which do not necessarily see eye-to-eye on everything.

Doolittle : ...What is your one purpose in life?

Bomb no.20 : To explode of course.

The whole conversation with a self aware bomb, extremly interesting :)